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EditorsNote: in notes, fixes Saunders' team to Double-A Frisco Tulowitzki, Rockies blitz Rangers again DENVER -- Another game, another onslaught by the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. The Rockies pounded the Texas Rangers 12-1 Wednesday to sweep the two-game National League portion of the interleague series that shifts to Arlington, Texas, for two games beginning Wednesday, Colorado (21-14) completed a 5-1 homestand that improved its home record to 13-5. The Rockies now face a challenge with 15 of their next 21 games on the road.

Colorado's Jhoulys Chacin comes off the disabled list to make his first start of the season when the red-hot Rockies go for a four-game sweep of the New York Mets on Sunday. Colorado improved to 5-0 in home series this season with a wild 11-10 victory Saturday on pinch-hitter Charlie Culberson's two-run walk-off homer after the Rockies erased a 6-0 deficit with an eight-run fifth inning before blowing 8-6 and 9-8 leads, and trailing 10-9 entering the bottom of the ninth. Colorado, which has won six of its last seven games and is 12-4 in its last 16, is 11-4 at home while averaging 7.8 runs at Coors Field and batting .350 at its spacious ballpark.

Gee's six scoreless innings lead Mets past Rockies DENVER -- The New York Mets have never been swept in a four-game series at Coors Field. They avoided that negative history Sunday by beating the Colorado Rockies 5-1, thanks in large part to right-hander Dillon Gee, who pitched six scoreless innings. Gee worked into the seventh, a welcome change for the Mets, whose starters had worked at least five innings in 26 games before coming here but combined to pitch just 13 innings in the first three games of this series.

The offensively challenged San Diego Padres are at least hitting when it matters lately and will try to win the series with the visiting Colorado Rockies on Thursday in the finale of their four-game set. San Diego, last in the National League with 44 runs, went 3-for-7 with runners in scoring position in Wednesday's 4-2 victory as Chris Denorfia had two of the hits while driving in a pair of runs. Colorado is 2-4 on its seven-game trip as life away from Coors Field continues to be difficult.

EditorsNote: fixes Quintana's ground-ball outs from 12 to 14 Abreu's first two homers help White Sox rout Rockies DENVER -- The White Sox were waiting for first baseman Jose Abreu to make a big impact. It finally happened Tuesday, when he hit the first two home runs of his career as Chicago buried the Colorado Rockies 15-3 at Coors Field. Right fielder Avisail Garcia also hit two homers, and the White Sox collected six homers in a game for the first time since 2009. Two White Sox players hit two homers in the same game for the first time since 2004.

DENVER - The first home run of Jose Abreu's major league career sailed through the Colorado air and just over the left field fence at Coors Field in the seventh inning against the Rockies on Tuesday night, and the new White Sox first baseman celebrated at the plate with a pair of fist bumps to his teammates and a finger pointing at the sky. The celebration of his second career homer looked about the same one inning later. Abreu's pair of home runs was just a small part of the Sox's impressive power display as they bounded back from a tough loss Monday night to crush the Rockies 15-3.

DENVER - White Sox right fielder Avisail Garcia sighed from his seat in the visitors' clubhouse at Coors Field after considering whether a painful left shoulder injury will keep him out for an extended period of time. "Hopefully not," he said. Garcia suffered what initially has been diagnosed as a jammed left shoulder while tumbling to the ground trying to catch a fly ball in the sixth inning of the 10-4 loss to the Rockies on Wednesday. He stayed on the ground wincing after what he described as a crack in his shoulder, and the Sox training staff accompanied him off the field as he held his left arm across his stomach.

DENVER - White Sox manager Robin Ventura said second-base substitute Marcus Semien has put together "solid at-bats" despite starting the season hitting .156 through Monday. Semien, who is filling in for injured Gordon Beckham, had one hit in each of his last five games entering Tuesday night's meeting with the Rockies at Coors Field. "He might not get a hit, but you have an at-bat where you go deep into the count, see a lot of pitches, foul stuff off and put it into play hard," Ventura said.

Rockies hand Diamondbacks sixth loss in seven games DENVER -- The Colorado Rockies opened their home schedule Friday at Coors Field with an exhibition of slugging, which is not unusual there, and a strong effort from their starting pitcher, which is far less common. They overwhelmed the Arizona Diamondbacks 12-2 before a sellout crowd of 49,130. Outfielder Charlie Blackmon tied the franchise record with six hits, and he and left fielder Carlos Gonzalez each hit two-run homers.

MLB Team Report - Colorado Rockies - INSIDE PITCH Todd Helton will carry a seven-game hitting streak and the fresh memory of a robust, dramatic final homestand into a weekend series at Los Angeles where his 17-year career with the Rockies will end Sunday. "Mentally, 17 years is enough," Helton, 40, said. "Physically, it's definitely enough. " Helton played all nine games on the homestand that ended Wednesday night and raised his average 10 points to .254 by going 13-for-38 (.342)